PHOTO PROMPT © Luther Siler
Word Count: 100 words of text, exactly
Genre: Realistic Metaphorical Fiction
Block-Cage
©December 9th, 2015
By Vijaya Sundaram
The prisoner beat his head against the cage, and died …
I stopped typing, and shook my head. I didn’t like the story.
My eight-year-old came into my room, saw the fallen bird, and said, “Sorry Mom, it fell when I reached up to touch it. I’ll fix it.” And she did, after which I hung it from its hook. For a moment, I looked at it fondly, smiling, then went back to my computer, erased my first line, and began again:
When the prisoner beat his head against the prison-bars, he grew wings …
Time melted away.
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Thanks, as always, to our Fairy Blog-Mother, Rochelle Wisoff-Fields, for hosting Friday Fictioneers, and to Luther Siler for that surreal photograph!